Greetings from Australia. Wheel lacing/truing machines. Engineering magic.👍👍👍 Go Team Syndicate and the mighty new V10 CC for 2023. Saving my $ already.
As a person who worked in manufacturing... Where are the chairs for the employees? It seems, they would have a lot of carpel tunnel issues from repetitive processes. Do they rotate stations? I need to know!
Secret insider scoop from a person who worked in the wheels department. Rotations through the stations happen hourly so you're never stuck at one spot for very long. There are compression mats for every single station that you stand at and for the reserve line we got stools for each machine. A lot of times the stools/chairs are not used because it's nice standing and working sometimes.
It would be cool if you put a rear shock on that frame snapping contraption as a damper for the weights as opposed to a simple spring…..it’s the little things, seeing those weights bounce hurts my OCD 😂😂😂
The biking industry has shifted so much in the past three years: overpriciim, poor customer service, and short supply. Distributors are the wrost. I had great years of riding, but now its time to move to something else. Goodbye SC.
@@bikedude019 what are you talking about they still have the best customer service in the game, I've heard of them replacing a frame 3 owners later, and they're expensive because of that exceptional customer service
You are full of it I got stickers on my Hightower V3 that says made in China, biggest disappointment I was thinking I was buying American product, i put it up for sale , hopefully sales quickly
The frame is manufactured in China. The bike is assembled in America. We make that clear in the video. There's components and then there's the complete bicycle.
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Digging that guys fine example of a mullet. Ohh, and the wheel building thing, yeah that was pretty cool as well.
Greetings from Australia. Wheel lacing/truing machines. Engineering magic.👍👍👍 Go Team Syndicate and the mighty new V10 CC for 2023. Saving my $ already.
Super cool, very LEAN. As a guy who loves to rides bikes and works in a workshop dream job 😄
Good job kit
Yeeew! What slick video and its all in the detail thats why Greg the manager is wearing the exact same gear as last video 🥴😂
Great stuff Greg
I bought a SC bullit cc x01 reserve wheels and love every detail
Good choice!
The 🐐's accent is so Boer it oppressed my phone.😂
Loving the use of metric measurements 😁
Cool to see where my rims were built- first ride on my reserve wheels- cracked straight through - back to non carbon
Wow! Impressive machine for spokes and wheels! How many employees SC has got? Did I miss it in video?
In the wheel department there are 20 full time employees. In the Santa Cruz factory total there are close to 300.
What about using boron fiber?
Need that Megatower shipped to Indonesia ASAP
As a person who worked in manufacturing... Where are the chairs for the employees? It seems, they would have a lot of carpel tunnel issues from repetitive processes. Do they rotate stations? I need to know!
Secret insider scoop from a person who worked in the wheels department. Rotations through the stations happen hourly so you're never stuck at one spot for very long. There are compression mats for every single station that you stand at and for the reserve line we got stools for each machine. A lot of times the stools/chairs are not used because it's nice standing and working sometimes.
Love how Santa Cruz Bicycles do it themselves instead of getting some mega factory to do it instead. It's the little touch that made Santa Cruz today.
It would be cool if you put a rear shock on that frame snapping contraption as a damper for the weights as opposed to a simple spring…..it’s the little things, seeing those weights bounce hurts my OCD 😂😂😂
Assembled in USA, but fabricated in China. My 6000$ CAD CC Megatower frame as a sticker made in China.
Oh you got the cheap one eh.
SC has their own frame factory in china,
The biking industry has shifted so much in the past three years: overpriciim, poor customer service, and short supply. Distributors are the wrost. I had great years of riding, but now its time to move to something else. Goodbye SC.
@@bikedude019 what are you talking about they still have the best customer service in the game, I've heard of them replacing a frame 3 owners later, and they're expensive because of that exceptional customer service
Same for my Orbea Rallon !
Our wheels have 0.1-0.05 tolerance in lateral true and 0.3 in radial true. ;-P All handbuilt.
dang that is some crazy tight specs. Must take an hour to make each wheel.
The machines are impressive. But nothing beats a professionally hand built wheel. Nothing. And no diagonal cut on the tape?!
Watch again. The wheels have a lot of hands on them, the machines speed up the simple stuff (and do so consistently).
You are full of it I got stickers on my Hightower V3 that says made in China, biggest disappointment I was thinking I was buying American product, i put it up for sale , hopefully sales quickly
That was a accident lmao.
Made in china, assembled in california
The frame is manufactured in China. The bike is assembled in America. We make that clear in the video. There's components and then there's the complete bicycle.
thats why santa cruz is expensive bike
Quality doesn't come cheap.
@@santacruzbicycles2841 thats true 🤘
@@santacruzbicycles2841 the item you receive is worth the price you pay 💪